Water expeller



T. J. LOGAN WATER .EXPELLER June 24, 1930.

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O 55 v l Patented June 24, 1930 THOMAS J. LOGAN, OF WAPATO, WASHINGTONWATER nxrmmnn Application filed May 7, 1929. Serial No. 361,137.

This invention is a device for expelling surplus water from mops andfrom clothes or other articles or materials, the object being to providean exceedingly simple and inexpensive device which may be readilyattached to any tub or pail and by the use of which surplus water in amop may be quickly and efiici'ently expelled or clothes partlydriedfwithout injury to the articles 'or materials. The invention isillustrated in the accompanying drawing and will be hereinafter fullyset forth.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a perspective view showing my improved device inoperativeposition upon a pail, and I Fig. 2 is an enlarged verticalsection.

The pail or tub 1 may be of any usual or approved construction andserves as a container forthe supply of water in which the mop is to beimmersed from time to time or in which clothes may be washed. The deviceconstituting the present invention comprises an open top receptaclecomprising triangular end plates 2 and a reticulated side plate 3 whichis bent into V-shape so as to conform to the triangular form of the endplates and which is reinforced around its edges by flanges or flatstrips 4 which are disposed against and rigidly secured to flanges 5formed along the edges of the end plates 2, as shown and as will beunderstood. In the lower portion of each end plate 2 are formedperforations 6 through which water may escape. Secured to each end plateabove the center of the same is a metallic strip 7 which projects beyondthe edges of the plate and is provided at its inner end with an openingthrough which is inserted a supporting rod 8, said rod being 7 of suchlength that it may extendjentirely across the pail or tub and rest uponthe edge of the same, as clearly shown in Fig. 1. At the opposite end ofeach strip 7 a short rod 9 is secured in and extends between theprojectingends of the strips so as to resist any tendency of theadjacent side plate 3 to buckle and also resist spreading of theprojecting portions of the strips. The projecting front ends of thestrips are bent inwardly, as shown at 10, and then downwardly,

as shownat 11, to form hangers or clips which are adapted to bearagainst the outer side of the tubor pail, as shown clearly in r Fig. 3,and thereby aid in supporting the receptacle-as well as preventing itsmovement across the pail.

From the foregoing description, it will be seen that I have provided anexceedingly. simple and inexpensive device which may be readilysupported upon the top of a pail or tub and direct water into the same.In use, the mop is inserted into the receptacle and suflicient pressureexerted through the mop handle to force the head close to the bottom ofthe receptacle and as the bottom is exceedingly restricted and the sidewalls theregf converge downwardly the mop head will e that the surpluswater will be expressed therefrom and will flow back to the pail or tub.The openings 6 through the end walls of the receptacle facilitate thereturn of the water as is obvious. The device may be used as asubstitute for a clothes Wringer by inserting the wet washed clothesinto the receptacle and pressing them as closely as possible into thebottom of the same, whereupon the same squeezing and water-expel lingaction will occur. The device may be easily placed in position orremoved as it end walls having openings through their lowerapexportions, a reticulated plate V- squeezed between the reticulatedsides so shaped transversely to correspond to the edges of the endwalls, secured along the edges plate, inwardly projecting flanges alongthe edges of the end walls to which the flanges of the reticulated platearesecured, supporting strips secured across the end walls and havingtheir outer ends formed into reinforcing strips pendent hangers toengage across the edge of said reticulated of a tub and against theouter side of the tub, a brace fitted in and extending between theprojecting front ends of said strips, and a rod carried by the rear endsof the strips to extend across and rest upon the edge of a tub.

In testimony whereof I aifix my si nature.

THOMAS J. LOGAN.

